Sally Kohn: Trans activists talk about the need for trans medical care to be easily universally accessible. But she says they also want to demeticalize the existing framework for thinking about trans care. Kohn: I would like to see the means of transition liberated from their institutional homes and distributed as potentials throughout the population, kind of unconditionally.
Featuring Jules Gill-Peterson on Histories of the Transgender Child. Amid this right-wing reaction, a discussion of the history of trans medicine and trans children—and also trans politics more generally.
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